Summer Reading

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there 

is no path and leave a trail. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

I LOVE READING

This week I thought with dismay how summer will soon end and I have yet to cross reading and writing off my summer to-do-list.

I couldn't wait for spring classes to end so I could enjoy some summer reading. Oh to pick up some of my favorite reads by authors like Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, Charles Dickens, Ralph Waldo Emerson or C.S. Lewis and just sit on a beach somewhere and read! (A girl can dream can't she?)

Also I had planned on reading some poetry and perhaps even writing some of my own. And of course to blog!

But instead my summer classes have been far more busier than expected. Never did I imagine so much information would come to me so fast! No sooner than I finish an assignment, another is due! 

I've done so much 'reading and writing' that I haven't been able to read or write!         (Make sense?) All this required reading leaves no time for 'me' reading. 

Funny thing is, I'm wondering if some of my favorite authors didn't just decide that if I wasn't coming to them, they'd come to me...for just today Mr. Ralph Waldo Emerson decided to show up among my required reading. What a pleasant surprise!

What fun to read (and a requirement at that) about Emerson and his influences on the Supreme Court.  My studies in the past have always been through the eyes of English teachers or philosophers, not the legal setting. So I'm getting to see him in a different light.

I plan on writing more about him and other authors, after I find my own path. But until these summer classes end, I must follow the path that others lead.

So basically this post is just a little intro for the few posts soon to follow. Hoping to find the time between summer class studies to share excerpts and thoughts from some of my favorite authors.

“Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakenly meant for his ear; the profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader; the profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until it is discovered by an equal mind and heart.”             ~Ralph Waldo Emerson